[stylist] OFF topic

Sun Sep 8 02:31:33 UTC 2013

The overlay is a thin plastic sheet that has dots for all the letters except f and j--just the reverse of a keyboard. And it has a dot where the send button occurs in messages, a dot where the back button and the cancel button is and a dot in the miedle of the screen. I find it to be very useful. It also hav five dots spaced across the bottom to hit various things down the and a dot where the purchase apps button occurs in the app store. So, let's see if I can actually describe where these dots are. There is one in the upper left--not quite at the top. On the right there are two of them in the upper part--one above the other. The re is the dot in the middle of the screen. There are all the letter buttons and the extra five in the lower part of the screen. Just abovethe  p keyis  the one onthe  send button. It is no problem to use this with VoiceOver. No interference what so ever. It's as thin as the ones that come withthe  phone, exceptit  has these dots. Barbara

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On Sep 6, 2013, at 23:55, Bridgit Pollpeter <bpollpeter at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The touch screen technology isn't bad with voiceover, especially since
> when using voiceover, you need to double tap in order to initiate a
> function. So you just run your finger across the screen, hearing the
> voiceover, and when you find what you're looking for, then you double
> tap. Also, once you grow accustom to the lay-out, you know where certain
> *buttons* are.
> 
> How does an over-lay work? The buttons, or icons, can be moved, so an
> over-lay wouldn't accommodate for this. I also wonder how it works to
> double tap a smart phone buttons with an over-lay, and even if an
> over-lay helps with the initial function, how does it work when going
> into new screens? For instance, you find the phone button, but now you
> have a new lay-out of buttons for calling and voicemail and looking up
> info on a contact, etc. And each function, phone, text, internet, notes,
> etc., has it's own screen, and sometimes the buttons are a little
> different.
> 
> I'm curious about the functionality of such an over-lay and how it works
> with smart phones.
> 
> Bridgit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
> Hammel
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> 
> The A T Guys sell an overlay that has tactile dots that can also make
> the 
> screen not so daunting.
> Barbara
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert
> Frost -----Original Message----- 
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> Hi Bridget,
> I agree with you.  Before I had my i-phone, I had a flip phone. You
> know, one of these ones where you just dial and text.  When I first got
> my i-phone, I was intimidated too because I felt like the flip phone was
> so much easier to use.  But I've found that this is much better and has
> more capabilities. Vejas
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bridgit Pollpeter <bpollpeter at hotmail.com
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> Date sent: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 19:56:07 -0500
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> I love my IPhone.  It took an adjustment at first, but now I like it
> better than any other phone I've used.  The lack of tactile buttons was
> weird at first, but now the touch screen isn't much a problem. And it
> seems to be the most accessible phone on the market right now. In
> addition to the phone itself being accessible, there are several apps
> you can download that are accessible like money readers, color
> detectors, accessible GPS, magnification, bar code scanners, not to
> mention the availability of sites like NetFlix and television
> programming.
> 
> Bridgit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Atty Rose
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 3:38 PM
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> 
> Hi folks, you are the biggest bunch of blind folks I know so I am asking
> about cell phones and which one works for you best.  Feel free to write
> me off list.
> 
> attyrose at cox.net
> 
> Thank you,
> Atty
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